QUEEN OF URBAN PROPHECY out now! Aya’s first serialized novel THE MYSTERY WOMAN IN RM 3 out on Orion Magazine!

Queen of Urban Prophecy

OUT NOW from Kensington Books! Also out in audio from Recorded Books.

A young starlet rapper faces unexpected public scrutiny when she releases a song about a girl shot by police after school, and a girl with the same name gets killed by police under those circumstances. Meanwhile, her national tour is increasingly hot as she criss-crosses a nation ravaged by global warming. Can she learn how to use her platform for activism on behalf of Black lives and climate justice?

Also out from Kensington and Recorded Books:

Aya’s first standalone novel is out now, A SPY IN THE STRUGGLE. A young Black woman attorney working for the FBI is unexpectedly sent to infiltrate an African American eco-racial justice organization. But when she encounters a suspicious death, hostile white Bureau supervisors and sympathetic Black activists , where will her loyalty land?

Also from Kensington: Justice Hustlers series #4: SIDE CHICK NATION, the first novel published about Hurricane Maria, was selected for first place in the International Latino Book Awards for a novel in English that is an adventure or drama. The story is about a young sex worker from NYC who was pimped as a teen, and when she gets caught in the disaster, she’s politically awakened to action about colonization and climate change.

Also OUT NOW on Orion Magazine!

The Mystery Woman in Room Three

Two undocumented Dominican teen girls in Florida uncover a senate kidnapping plot to stop the Green New Deal. Can they build a team of young activists to foil the plot and save the earth?

(free & available online)